Ok, so here it is, my first composition and recording on my 1840s Broadwood Square Piano.
Apologies in advance for it being so mournful and dirge like, and my playing being so wooden – I never claimed to be a pianist. Lack of piano ability is what makes this one so slow and short. I had to be able to play it right through in a single take. No multi-tracking, or splicing different parts together, and definitely no fixing up bad notes afterwards….
The tuning isn’t great – but that’s because the strings on it are very old. The full restoration will involve replacing all the strings, but it’ll be a couple of years before I can afford that.
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008Status Report
Thursday, November 6th, 2008Been a bit quiet lately – between Conflux and work pressures I haven’t really had time to get any music done.
Tonight continues the trend.
However, it’s not all bad – I recently purchased an Edirol FA-101 Firewire sound module, which will hopefully make recording easier, and I also bought the Edirol Super Quartet softsynth, which gives me a nice set of Piano and Electric piano sounds (and guitars, basses and drums, but it’s the pianos I most wanted). Unfortunately, it didn’t work with Vista, and Roland have no intention of making it do so.
Fortunately it wasn’t the plugin itself that didn’t work with Vista – just the installer. A cracked version of it installed and works fine.
Yes – pay attention Roland / Edirol: I had to pirate your software which I legally purchased, in order to be able to use it.
Also, next Thursday I will be finally taking delivery of my 1840s Broadwood Square Piano, so hopefully I will have something that evening from that instrument.